Theodore Roosevelt To say that Theodore Roosevelt was a complex personality would be to put things mildly. He was one of the greatest American heroes of the nineteenth century. The man said and did a lot of things, but more importantly he helped build America into the great superpower it is today. Roosevelt accomplished what few would even dare to contemplate. He willingly placed himself in harm’s way in order to prove a point or take a stand. He was not a dreamer but rather a doer. Roosevelt was and still is an everlasting symbol of the American dream. In truth the man would do little to raise America to economic greatness, he symbolically raised it to impossible heights as a world